Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CABG/surgical AVR was tied to lower risk for stroke, MI, valve reintervention or death vs. PCI/TAVR for aortic ...

CABG is a type of open-heart surgery specialists use to treat a heart attack when arteries that bring blood to the heart narrow or get blocked. Cholesterol and fatty deposits known as plaque build up ...

Kaplan-Meier 5-year estimates of major adverse cardiac or cerebrovascular events (MACCE) were 28% for PCI and 19% for CABG, yielding a hazard ratio (HR) of 1.58, which exceeded the prespecified limit ...

CABG surgery is an effective way to improve symptoms and prognosis in patients with advanced coronary atherosclerotic disease. Despite multiple improvements in surgical technique and patient treatment ...

Medically reviewed by Rafle Fernandez, MD Key Takeaways Bypass surgery is better than stents for serious heart disease.A ...

CABG surgery is the standard treatment for patients with left main coronary artery disease (CAD), but randomized trials have shown that percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting ...

Elderly patients with complex geriatric conditions and left main or multivessel coronary artery disease who experience an acute coronary syndrome—particularly NSTEMI or unstable angina—fare ...

(UPDATED) In patients with ACS, performing CABG within a couple of days after ticagrelor cessation is noninferior to waiting 5 or 6 days in terms of bleeding events, according to new randomized data.

Lifestyle modifications and rapid urbanization has led to an epidemic of cardiac disease in India. The incidence of coronary artery disease ranges from 14.8 to 65.4 per 1000 population. Cardiac ...

In the international SYNTAX trial, 1800 patients with three-vessel or left main coronary artery disease were randomly assigned to either revascularization with coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) ...

Patients with acute coronary syndromes who have been taking the antiplatelet medication, ticagrelor, and who need coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) may be able to safely have the procedure earlier ...

Manhasset, N.Y.-based North Shore University Hospital had the highest 30-day survival rate for coronary artery bypass graft patients among all U.S. hospitals participating in CMS’ Fiscal Year 2025 ...